your own experiences in reykjavik. one image that you point beautifully is the sight of the two military officers from each side holding the nuclear football with the suit case and codes that will lunch a strike. you said the most memorable sight you recall from that summit. why is that? >> guest: the idea these two men were as close as you and i together and holding each of them in their pressed uniforms standing there and never looking at each other that i saw, holding a brief case and clutching it hard with their hand that had the codes to blow up each other's country. i thought god that is what they are talking about in this room. and hofty house is small. it is a small little house. and they didn't have room to spread out. we were up stairs in a parlor. there is a russian parlor and a military parlor and a zone tone them. and then the conference room on the first floor and the two guys in the hallway. and every time a leader left a fellow holding a football left. but to go and see the leaders go into the room as i

being the hero of reykjavik. and then the soviet union starts to fall. and september 26th i am reading in a new york city most and it says he committed suicide. in his office, with the chand leer, took the rope from the drapes, tied it up, and committed suicide. right down the hall from gorbachev's office. and then as if that wasn't bad enough something happened a week later. when i read that paper on september 26th, it was early in the morning. by that time collin powell was chairman of the joint chiefs. i called him up before 7 a.m. his secretary said well he is in a briefing already. and i said all right tell him i called and to call when i get a chance. and she said hold on a moment. and the phone ring and he said kenny, he always called me kenny, i felt the same thing. it is unbelievable what happened. i didn't say what i called for or who, but we both knew it was amazing. a week later his funeral takes place and no official attends. no body from the foreign ministry, no military honors, just his daughters,

he was very saw the way on the way out to reykjavik, out of reykjavik to the airbase. there he was going to spend five minutes talking to the church that are over station for nato deployment there and he would not. he was fierce until he stood in front of the 3000 troops. whenever he was in front of the troops he just lit up and you could see from which they are it wasn't ronald reagan. >> host: the way it was portrayed it was portrayed in detail in the book in the immediate aftermath was that reagan had walked away from the deal of the century. gorbachev had effectively proposed scrapping all nuclear weapons and reagan said no. but you agreed with reagan turning to deal down. >> guest: i did. i did not know how important. i thought it he was right that we would go back to the nuclear side keep our options and. but i thought sdi was going to be important. reagan didn't want anything to do with it. he wanted to protect the united states with a shield. i had no idea and i say that in the boat. i had no idea that this is going to start a chain reaction at the end of the c

reykjavik to the airbase. there he was going to spend five minutes talking to the troops the 3000 troops scheduled for deployment there and he would schedule the for a long time. he was furious until he got to the base and stood in front of 3000 troops and when he was in front of the trips he would light up. you can see from his speech he was back to ronald reagan but for that hour he wasn't ronald reagan. >> host: the way was portrayed in the process of your broken immediate aftermath of the summit is reagan away from the deal of the century the gorbachev had effectively proposed scrapping all nuclear weapons and reagan said no. you agreed with reagan's turning to the deal down and you still agree. >> guest: i did. i didn't know how important was going to be. i thought on balance it was right that we would go back to the nuclear side and we should keep our options open but it wasn't. i thought sdi was going to be important to reinforce it and reagan didn't want anything to do with it. he wanted to protect the

reykjavik was the real pinnacle. at reykjavik they met for 10 1/2 hours.was like an agatha christie story. they met in an isolated place at the end of the world in an old creaky house with rain lashing on the windowsill. and the house was thought to be haunted. and the two of them over a weekend experienced the most amazing things. and what did they experience is the terms for this deep reductions, the deep nest hiest history for nuclear weapons that's continued to this day and what neither of them could imagine, that the cold war would end within a very short time. it was amazing. the thesis of the book is that these 48 hours, reykjavik, represented the start of the end of the cold war, and the events coming out of reykjavik resulted in just that. the decline of the soviet union, the end of the soviet union and then the end of the cold war. >> ken, this is all fascinating stuff. thank you so much for bringing it all back. and it could never be more relevant than today with vladimir putin. thank you again. >> it's a great story. it's a great story. >> than

you were there with reagan at reykjavik and that's why you wrote the book about him.an died ten years ago today. ken adelman, thank you for joining us live. >> thank you, steve. it is just a great story. >> and it's a great book. thank you for sharing it with all of us. >>> it's a first ever for the super bowl. can you tell what when you take a look at the logo? hmm... it is a tough question. should a baker be forced to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding even if it is against his religious belief? apparently the answer is yes and the baker in the center of that controversy is here next. ♪ ♪ it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain. little things, anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence. insures support. a breakthrough. and sooner than you'd like... ...sooner than you think. ...you die from alzheimer's disease. ...we cure alzheimer's disease. every little click, call, or donation adds up to something big. alzheimer's association. the brains behind saving yours. >> let me tell you what's going on in sports. a thrilling start to the stanl

in reykjavÍk the order of the smallest ever because nothing happened in a slim and it was ever classified so we have eight of us sitting side-by-side, right next to each other enfolding free chairs, the kind that wal-mart would be ashamed to sell. cheap as can be come all squeezed in, almost knee to knee and side to side so we are in this bubble. it schultz's telling us what he knew about the first meeting. and all of a sudden -- secretary of state. all of a sudden the latch opens up, door swings open. we look up and there's a 730 secret service agency said the president of the united states. he did what any red loaded american would do. he said. we are a belly to belly. reagan looks at all of us in does this make a great aquaria. we should put up with water. and then we come to a crisis because we hadn't eat cedar fair and there are nine of us now. there is a staff of the white house. there was the secretary of day. there's the national security adviser and their spears control. i knew if i was going to say, i needed to do something fast. so my dad was off for the president might share.

at reykjavik." and we conclude at 11 p.m. eastern with charlotte binelli who uncovers a collection of letters from a young german jew during the rise of the nazis. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> and now from washington, d.c.'s politics & prose bookstore, elizabeth drew talks about the new edition of her book, "washington journal." the book, originally published in 1975, covers the dissolution of the nixon administration from september 1973 to august of 1974. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. why don't you just keep talking, and i'll sit and -- [laughter] try in your words. they were lovely. it's lovely to be back here. first time since my last book, as david got -- [inaudible] and barbara were always very welcoming to me. they always said when's your next book? you're on. [laughter] and it was lovely. and as david said, brad and lissa have carried on the wondrous tradition, the ingenuity and made it keep going, and the fact that all of you have come tonight is a testimony to the job they do and the

president barack obama says he is reykjavÍk to waiting out a range of options for the violent insurgencyn iraq but he warned the leaders in baghdad that u.s. will not take military action unless they move to address the political troubles. "the new york times" reports sending in u.s. troops is not one of the options on the table. he spoke this afternoon from the south lawn of the white house. here's the reaction from members of congress. james imhoff says the motion deserves better answers than president obama and the democratic representative iraq is a quagmire we cannot control. it's time to stay home. texas republican representative, chaos and catastrophe in iraq is the result of obama's failed foreign-policy. this morning washington journal talked to a reporter about what is going on in iraq and here is a portion. >> is the u.s. going to intervene militarily in iraq and your view? >> it depends on what you mean by intervention. if you're talking about sending more advisers i think that it's very possible. we already have some very older women extremely limited capacity. if you are ta

that unless you retain this prime minister maliki then the terrorist organizations will continue to reykjavikwhile in fact the government is supporting some of these terrorist organizations as is seen by the consequences of some of these starvation some of the terrorist organizations they're using weapons they are using because they are using more than vehicles which can only be provided to them by the government many of them are the same make the same use of the ones that are big used by the. military forces of the prime minister i want to move across to the wall raging over the border in syria it's turning the country said into an al qaida haven how much of a worry do you think this is for the iraqi leadership i think it's it's really this idea of. what if for the iraqi leader. because it's actually now the actions of the of the government is turning on the terrorist organization. to unify their positions the terrorist organizations were fighting each other when they're in the eastern syria or western iraq however now at the present moment there are more of them joining together creating la

at 10 p.m., ken edelman, "reagan at reykjavik." and we conclude at 11 p.m. eastern with charlotte binelli who uncovers a collection of letters from a young german jew during the rise of the nazis. that all happens tonight on c-span2's booktv. >> and now from washington, d.c.'s politics & prose bookstore, elizabeth drew talks about the new edition of her book, "washington journal." the book, originally published in 1975, covers the dissolution of the nixon administration from september 1973 to august of 1974. this is about an hour. >> thank you, david. why don't you just keep talking, and i'll sit and -- [laughter] try in your words. they were lovely. it's lovely to be back here. first time since my last book,